Young girls in the Calabrete community of the Dominican Republic were taught hygiene techniques last month by a team of Keuka College students.

Written by

Jennifer Kingsley
jkingsle@gannett.com

Last month, when a group of Keuka College students went to the Dominican Republic to bring health education to the some of the country's youngest residents, Horseheads resident Ashley Stein was among them.

Ashley, a nursing student with Keuka's Accelerated Studies for Adults Program, joined her classmates in the community of Calabrete, wrote Rachel E. Dewey, a Keuka spokeswoman. Ashley takes her courses at Arnot Ogden Medical Center in Elmira, one of Keuka's 20 ASAP locations across the region.

The college group, filled out with nine other nursing students from Utica, Ithaca, Corning ...